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Octopus is a 126-metre (413 ft) megayacht built for Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.She is one of the world's largest yachts. Launched in 2003 at a cost of $200 million, [1] Octopus is a private vessel that has been loaned out for exploration projects, scientific research and rescue missions.
The ship was built for Russian vodka tycoon Yuri Shefler for $330m. [4] [5] In the summer of 2014, Bill Gates leased the yacht for US$5 million per week.[6]In 2014, [7] while vacationing in the south of France, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia bought the vessel from Yuri Shefler for approximately €500 million.
This is a list of all the yachts built by italian ship manufacturer Perini Navi and its subsidiary Cantiere Navale Beconcini, sorted by year. Perini Navi yard in Viareggio , Italy Was the longest yacht upon completion.
Santa Cruz boats are made to order so the roughly $600,000 base price of a Santa Cruz 52 can climb to well over $1 million; even ten-year-old Santa Cruz 52's are fetching a half million dollars. The newer Santa Cruz 53 with a base price of about $850,000 is substantially a more luxiourious and heavier adaptation of the 52.
In a radio interview for the BBC World Service's Global Business programme broadcast in December 2007, Perkins claimed that he personally wrote some of the yacht's unique control software. On 4 November 2007, in a 60 Minutes profile, Perkins suggested the yacht cost more than $150 million but less than $300 million, refusing to be more specific ...
The British-flagged 56-metre-long (184-foot-long) yacht, which the experts estimated cost around $40 million, capsized and went down on Aug. 19 within minutes of being hit by a pre-dawn storm ...
The average home value in Naples is close to $600,000, while its ritzy Port Royal neighborhood, with just 10,000 residents, has a median home sale price of slightly more than $9 million. (The ...
Black Pearl, at 106.7 metres (350.1 ft) the largest sailing yacht, as of 2018 [12]. The "Large Commercial Yacht Code (LY2)" of Great Britain and its dominions defines a "large yacht" as one that is 24 metres (79 ft) or more at the waterline and is in commercial use for sport or pleasure, while not carrying cargo or more than 12 passengers, and carrying a professional crew.